Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of a looming tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing very long. This does not mean of course that every poker player has been on steam in the past, a number of players have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s very crucial to appraise your successes and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are incredibly professional and you must be to.
You need to be certain that you can’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which usually cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a large chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to develop. Face that certainty right now, I will say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable effect of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to earn money, it certainly makes sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They just lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed
